The Secret to Making PPM Work (with Agile)

You’re already using CA Project & Portfolio Management to manage your innovation lifecycle and make better strategic decisions. What if you could take that up a notch by adopting agile and connecting your development work to your company’s most important business initiatives?

Join our experts on Wednesday, 19 October at 15:00 BST / 16:00 CEST for an insightful webinar, “The Secret to Making PPM Work (with Agile).” You’ll discover how to:

- Prioritize and select the right investments
- Coordinate agile teams to deliver on those investments
- Provide visibility into a fast, predictable, high-quality delivery engine.

Many IT and technology companies are scaling agility by introducing Big Room Planning (BRP), or PI Planning (if you’re a SAFe® shop), as a seminal event in their planning calendar. Those who have experienced a BRP know the return realized from greater collaboration, transparency, and alignment. They’ve seen it, and they’ve felt it.

It’s that last part that gets us in trouble. We expect others to make that leap of faith based on feelings. Really. Try having that discussion with your CFO. It’s not easy to overcome the quantification bias. If you’re hoping to bring together 150 people from across the globe, you need a solid business case. Sending your sponsors to observe a BRP can help greatly but what if you can’t get them to buy in. At this stage, many just give up.

We have taken our years of experience leading some of the world’s most interesting companies through Big Room Planning and coupled that with our practice using cost of delay as a technique to help us make good economic decisions. We will show that it is possible to quantify the more tangible benefits of Big Room Planning. Our data is not scientific but, it is empirical, and the results are compelling.

Every organization undergoes different pain points during their agile transformation.

We've been a part of many of those transformations, and our experts can offer insights and best practices for your organization to overcome those pain points. Join Laureen Knudsen, Agile Advisor, Executive Management at CA Technologies, agile expert and co-author of Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization and resident agile expert, on Tuesday, April 17, for your opportunity to ask the questions on your mind as your organization starts, expands and scales agile across multiple teams and departments.

Of all the Agile practices, none is more foundational than the inspect & adapt cycle of the retrospective. Even if you struggle with every other aspect of Agile, if you consistently engage in productive retrospectives, you will get better.

Industry surveys and studies suggest that 80% or more of Agile organizations have at least some distributed teams. Most of the traditional retrospective methods assume that all team members are co-located.

Running effective retrospectives for distributed teams presents unique challenges, but also, potentially, some great advantages. In this webinar, Agile coach and Instant Agenda co-founder Michael Ball-Marian will discuss the three greatest challenges to running distributed Agile retrospectives and how to solve them. Michael will share a variety of tips and techniques that you can use in any retrospective, co-located or distributed. Finally, he’ll present a few ways in which a distributed retrospective can actually be better than a co-located one.

Organizations create roadmaps to communicate strategy. Roadmaps must have the right level of granularity and connect strategy with implementation to ensure desired outcomes are achieved and value is delivered. Roadmaps provide the benefit of visualizing future business outcomes in order to make better-informed investment decisions.

Join Andy and CA’s Jim Tisch as they address:
•Why product roadmaps are more important than ever in an agile operating environment
•How roadmaps can be leveraged to develop proactive solutions that guide industry trends
•The importance of integrated product and project portfolio management
•The need for active roadmap management across the entire product portfolio

This webinar will not only challenge your assumptions on modern business management, it will provide you a tangible action plan to improve your success through better product roadmap management. Don’t miss out, sign up today.

There could be many reasons why you started down your Agile journey. There will be many more reasons why you continue with that journey today and in the future. But ultimately you have to deliver meaningful business results, and that requires you to validate your achievements and adjust as needed.

In many organizations this requires change. You might not be measuring the most important factors, which could result in a misunderstanding of the value of Agile.

-The importance of tying Agile performance to business results
-Establishing the right, business focused metrics
-How customer focused metrics drive business performance
-The need to evolve and mature your metrics over time

As always in one of Andy’s webinars he will not only make you think and challenge your assumptions, he will provide a tangible plan to help you take the concepts of effective metrics and measurement into your organization to drive even greater Agile success.

Every organization undergoes different pain points during their agile transformation.

We've been a part of many of those transformations, and our experts can offer insights and best practices for your organization to overcome those pain points. Join Doug Dockery and Laureen Knudsen, agile experts and co-authors of Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization and resident agile expert, on Tuesday, March 13, for your opportunity to ask the questions on your mind as your organization starts, expands and scales agile across multiple teams and departments.

Business leaders everywhere are plotting out their digital transformation strategies, and how to get closer to customers - fast. In the second part of this webinar series, guest speaker, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Jeffrey Hammond and Laureen Knudsen, Agile Advisor, Executive Management, at CA Technologies, will expand on their February 6th discussion and take the conversation straight to the C-suite:

During this webinar, they’ll discuss:
-Why scaling agile is a top transformation priority to optimize software delivery processes
-How to use predictive planning to better prepare your organization’s delivery efforts
-Effective measurement using agile software with automated data roll-ups that show how and where your dollars are spent
-Exactly how organizational transformation occurs beyond the dev teams
-How an agile transformation can reduce the stress of constant requests and pressures felt at the executive level
-The role modern technology platforms and tools play as complements to your process improvement efforts

Ultimately, the goal of an agile transformation is to provide your organization’s top-level of leadership the ability to see more of what is happening, so they can make critical business decisions that shape and steer the future of the digital enterprise.

Not that long-ago business transformation was a major, disruptive event that an organization went through every few years when it felt it had no choice. In this webinar industry expert and ProjectManagement.com contributor Andy Jordan is joined by CA’s Jim Tisch to discuss how today’s world of business transformation is very different. They’ll discuss:

If you feel as though your organization could be faster to respond to challenges, could do a better job of managing transformation or simply isn’t evolving as fast as it should, you cannot afford to miss that webinar.

A lot has been written recently about Agile expansion. That might sound scary when you are still new to Agile and might only have a few teams onboard. However, it is still important to start thinking about how you envision Scaling Agile and incorporating your business strategy.

Industry expert and ProjectManagement.com SME Andy Jordan believes that even for someone who is early in their agile adoption, it is essential to understand the concept of business agility.
Join Andy for this high energy, thought provoking webinar to learn:

-Why business agility matters and why you need to care about it
-The role of strategic agile models in supporting your agile success
-The importance of broadening Agile across multiple departments

In today’s business world every organization has to be able to react quickly and with minimal disruption to the inevitable changes they face. Business agility maximizes your ability to do that. Start improving things right now by signing up for this webinar.

Every organization undergoes different pain points during their agile transformation.

We've been a part of many of those transformations, and our experts can offer insights and best practices for your organization to overcome those pain points. Join Laureen Knudsen, co-author of "Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization" and resident agile expert, on Tuesday, February 13, for your opportunity to ask the questions on your mind as your organization starts, expands and scales agile across multiple teams and departments.

Business leaders everywhere are plotting out their digital transformation strategies, and how to get closer to customers - fast.

But there's a looming challenge: Real digital transformation requires fast, sweeping modernization of development culture, processes and old systems into new cloud-based systems that are agile, mobile, and able to deliver disruptive, real-time intelligence. Without major changes in your development shop, a digital transformation will struggle to take hold.

In the first part of this series, guest speaker, Forrester Vice President and Principal Analyst Jeffrey Hammond and Laureen Knudsen, Agile Advisor at CA Technologies, will introduce a framework to guide your development shop transformation, with best practices that put the customer at the center of software delivery efforts.

We'll discuss the cultural, structural, and talent acquisition processes firms are using as they refashion how their development teams gear up for faster delivery. In particular we'll look at changing organization structures, how teams are scaling up Agile delivery, and integrating Agile practices with customer-focused experience design practices.

In today’s fast paced modern business management environment the need for the right project portfolio management or PPM software solution has never been more important. However, many companies are still not viewing these platforms as part of the strategic infrastructure that drives success, and that’s a big problem. Join industry expert Andy Jordan and CA’s own Jim Tisch as they discuss the issues including:
•Why decisions must be driven from the top down
•Why cost alone is an irrelevant and misleading factor in choosing a solution
•The role IT does – and doesn’t, have in the decision-making process
•The importance of a partner over a vendor
•Measuring and managing the return on your PPM investment
An organization won’t succeed simply because they choose the right tool, but they may well fail if they commit to the wrong one. Don’t miss this thought provoking webinar and give yourself a significant advantage in the battle to deliver consistent success.

No two Agile adoptions are ever the same, but there are a number of common areas that can cause problems. Join industry expert and Projectmanagement.com contributor Andy Jordan as he highlights 7 challenges organizations often face.

In his usual upbeat style Andy will:
-Help you plan to prevent the challenges from affecting you
-Identify the early warning signs that things may be going wrong
-Give you tools to prevent thing getting worse and help you learn from the experience

As Agile becomes ever more critical to business success you can’t afford to fall into expensive traps on your Agile journey. Sign up for this webinar today and learn how to give your organization a path to success.

Businesses waste millions of dollars annually on employees participating in ineffective meetings. Yet, the waste continues to fly under the radar of executive leadership teams despite losses in operating expenses and productivity.

In this webinar we will present a framework for running highly productive, effective meetings that any organization can adopt. Specifically, we'll take a closer look at what are generally referred to as “issue clearing” meetings.

Every organization undergoes different pain points during their agile transformation.

We've been a part of many of those transformations, and our experts can offer insights and best practices for your organization to overcome those pain points. Join CA's Senior Director of Agile Management, Doug Dockery, agile coach and co-author of Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization and resident agile expert, on Tuesday, January 16, for your opportunity to ask the questions on your mind as your organization starts, expands and scales agile across multiple teams and departments.

If your organization says it too large or has too many legacy systems to take on an agile transformation, this webinar may change your mind. We’ll dig into how the Mainframe Business at CA Technologies, the founding product of our 40 year old company, embraced the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) to help improve product quality, drive innovation, and create a culture of empowered teams.

Join Dean Leffingwell, Founder of Scaled Agile, Inc and creator of SAFe®, and Ashok Reddy, General Manager of the Mainframe Business Unit at CA Technologies, to discuss how traditional, mission critical systems, with little room for risk, can push the boundaries of scaling agile and be the leaders for transformation across an organization.

Since aligning 74 teams to the Scaled Agile Framework over the past eight quarters, the Mainframe Business Unit has:
•Shipped 56 new product releases with zero defects
•Reduced the defect backlog by 45%
•Reduced the support backlog by 44%
•Deployed 3 new, organically-driven products

Strategic Project Management or SPM shouldn’t be difficult. At the most basic level it’s about ensuring the projects we deliver help our organization to achieve its strategic goals and objectives. Yet consistently SPM fails to deliver consistent results. In this thought provoking webinar industry, expert Andy Jordan joins CA’s Jim Tisch to discuss SPM and understand some of the things that go wrong:

•Setting ourselves up for failure with the prong projects
•The focus on what instead of why
•Short term thinking in project execution
•Failure to ensure commitments are actually met

As 2017 draws to a close and organizations the world over commit to do things better in 2018 this is a webinar you simply can’t afford to miss. Sign up today and let Andy give you the tools you need to deliver on next year’s strategic objectives.

New product development or NPD has never been more important. In today’s technically driven corporate environment the ability to launch the right products, with the right market positioning, at the right time and at the right price point is critical. But how do organizations ensure they can do that consistently well? Join industry expert Andy Jordan and CA’s own Jim Tisch as they consider:

Lean Startup is a concept that has been around for some time, yet there remain many misconceptions. Lean Startup starts at the Portfolio level, and only by beginning at that level can you understand what needs to be created.

Join us on Tuesday, October 31, as Martin Burns, with CA Technologies, and Carl Starendal, with Scaled Agile, Inc, discuss the importance of building your Lean business case and the impact it has on creating customer satisfaction, with the latest release of SAFe® 4.5.

Learning Outcomes
1.Learn how to build a Lean Business Case.
2.Understand what MVP truly means.
3.Learn how to evaluate your MVP and determine whether to proceed or stop.

Lean Startup is a concept that has been around for some time, yet there remain many misconceptions. Lean Startup starts at the Portfolio level, and only by beginning at that level can you understand what needs to be created.

Join us on Tuesday, October 31, as Martin Burns, with CA Technologies, and Carl Starendal, with Scaled Agile, Inc, discuss the importance of building your Lean business case and the impact it has on creating customer satisfaction, with the latest release of SAFe® 4.5.

Learning Outcomes
1.Learn how to build a Lean Business Case.
2.Understand what MVP truly means.
3.Learn how to evaluate your MVP and determine whether to proceed or stop.

Join the CA BrightTALK Channel to learn how Agile solutions and services, and Project & Portfolio Management (Agile Management) can help companies plan, execute, and deliver more work, more rapidly. Our industry experts and featured analysts will delve into topics that matter most to PPM and Agile professionals and practitioners and will provide practical advice and tips on how you can gain business agility and use it to your advantage in the App Economy.

Some sessions are approved for Project Management Institute (PMI) Personal Development Credits (PDUs).